What a moron! We’ll see what he says if he ever finds himself in the same position as the innocent passengers of Flight 253. He won’t think it’s “blown out of proportion” then.

NavyMustang on January 1, 2010 at 6:35 PM

Or even the shutdown of the airline industry due to security issues.

At some point people will simply refuse to risk their lives on airplanes (an inherently dangerous method of travel in the first place) if the civilized world is unable to keep the baddies out in a manner that doesn’t cause horrendous time delays. Profitability will take a nosedive if you can’t keep your customers safe in ANY industry, especially when you’re dealing with large-scale travel.

A long enough time period of unprofitability and the nation will face the financial collapse of major air carriers…a dire prospect indeed.

Ultimately, it does no favors to anyone to blow this sort of thing out of proportion. The United States could not, of course, be “devastated” by anything resembling this scheme. We ought to be clear on that fact. We want to send the message around the world that this sort of vile attempt to slaughter innocent people is not, at the end of the day, anything resembling a serious challenge to American power. It’s attempted murder, it’s wrong, we should try to stop it, but it’s really not much more than that.

What a moron! We’ll see what he says if he ever finds himself in the same position as the innocent passengers of Flight 253. He won’t think it’s “blown out of proportion” then.

-to be president (but fails miserably-especially in protecting us)
-to like America (in reality he’s trying to destroy it with his asinine policies)
-to be an ally to Israel, Europe, India, etc (he sucks up to our enemies instead)
-to be opposed to Islamic supremacism (he can’t shut up about how great Islam is, in fact its always been evil).
-to be transparent and bipartisan (of course he’s been the opposite)

now we’re stuck with this rotten scoundrel till 2012 unless people had the courage to impeach him and his thugocracy.

If Cheney was in power, Iran’s nuke program would’ve been destroyed along with the regime-the Iranian people would have a democracy again and we would’ve likely also taken out the other terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and so forth.

Too bad Bush caved to liberal screeching to protect terrorists in the last two years in office when he could’ve taken care of all this by now. As Norman Podhoretz stated, Obama has no intention to stop Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons and he’ll try to prevent Israel from attacking them (in pre-emptive self-defense).

How ignorant of reality does someone have to be not to take the chants of ‘Death to Israel, America, Denmark, UK, etc’ that we see coming out of the muslim world, seriously and particularly from the rulers (like in Iran)?

When Hitler promised to wipe out the Jews everyone laughed him off as well and we got WW2 and the deaths of 50 million people to end Nazism. If we’re going to have similarly large numbers of casualties to stop ‘radical’ Islam, I want all those deaths to occur in our enemy’s side, not ours.

With Islam, the cockroach theory applies-there’s not just one terrorist like Nadal Hassan or this ‘eunuch-bomber’…there’s a whole nest of them where they breed, literally and figuratively and we know it but prefer the safety of self-delusion and political-correctness instead.

So I guess we’re waiting for the ‘big one’, muslims nuking a US city or Israel and millions dying, until we finally decide to take the gloves off and fight this war as if our lives depend on it-which it does, western civilization is at stake.

Bush, Rumsfeld et all barely muster a response to the shoe bomber a week after the fact but y’all are pis*ing your pants over this.
“Obama pretends we’re not at war”
What an incredibly stupid thing to say.
You clowns are the ones who need to get a grip.
Dave Rywall on December 30, 2009 at 10:59 AM

Reid’s shoe bomb attempt happened three months after 9/11, where processes and procedures were still evolving. We are now eight years (and a fraction) into the Global War on Terror (a term no longer used by the White House, but certainly used here), and those processes and procedures were firmly in place at the end of the Bush Presidency. What happened in the interim to make us let our guard down?

We “clowns” as you call us certainly do have a grip — it’s called “the buck stops here”. The President is now using nearly identical words that Bush used eight years ago, because he’s had to relearn all the stuff Bush learned eight years ago rather than putting all that forward momentum to work.

Poor Mr. Obama. He’s like a low-acheiving kid set loose in the kitchen, who has to burn his hand on the stove five or six times before he learns the stove is really hot.

The poor guy is a pacifist appeaser and has to learn to be a war President.

Have pity on this country, for we have to relearn, so to speak, along with him.

]]>By: maverick musehttp://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/30/cheney-obama-pretends-were-not-at-war/comment-page-3/#comment-3094282
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:41:33 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=76868#comment-3094282HAPPY NEW YEAR, FOLKS! May your families enjoy good health and love. May we hold our government accountable to abide the Constitution, terminate PC and prosecute fraud.
]]>By: maverick musehttp://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/30/cheney-obama-pretends-were-not-at-war/comment-page-3/#comment-3094280
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:40:42 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=76868#comment-3094280Along the lines of pretending we’re not at war, Spathi leads the head-butt into the abyss of never-never-land, just an ostrich with his head buried in the backyard sandbox.

Yes I oppose all military operations. duh
Spathi on December 30, 2009 at 4:05 PM

American Revolutionary War–how dare we declare Independence, ungrateful to our monarch who dared to cap and tax EVERYTHING, without properly permitting our voice be heard in the matter?
The Constitution stipulates for militias and the US Military.
War of 1812–how dare we not acquiesce to British lords and masters attempting their re-acquisition of American property?
WWII: Japan’s attack at Pearl Harbor wasn’t US business, Hawaii being a territory we occupied. We asked to be attacked having promoted extended peace talks in Washington DC.

Given the rate Spathi shovels, when he comes up for air, it will be in Red China.

Shame on the ingrate Spathi! Americans owe the deepest respect to our military troops who sacrifice all in order to preserve and protect our Constitution and our lives. Spathi should direct his frustrations to purge the fraud from this Commander in Chief, the one in charge corrupting the Constitution at this moment.

]]>By: MSGTAShttp://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/30/cheney-obama-pretends-were-not-at-war/comment-page-3/#comment-3094139
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:37:49 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=76868#comment-3094139Is President Obama really thinking? President Obama does not understand what War is, thus his policies pertaining to dealing with the problem are flawed.

Observations of President Obama indicate that he also only listens to those that he agrees with and opposition is required to be shutdown at all cost.

Bush, Rumsfeld et all barely muster a response to the shoe bomber a week after the fact but y’all are pis*ing your pants over this.
“Obama pretends we’re not at war”
What an incredibly stupid thing to say.
You clowns are the ones who need to get a grip.
Dave Rywall on December 30, 2009 at 10:59 AM

I don’t recall Bush administration officials claiming that the system worked with Reid when it failed in State, the CIA and the TSA.

That’s Obama’s responsibility, so he should stop golfing and start dealing with his job.

Chuck Schick on December 30, 2009 at 11:18 AM

Exactly. The shoebomber was “unprecedented”, and it involved a British national coming through Orly airport in Paris, not Boston International. Obama had the task of explaining why a system operating 9 years later utterly totally failed to halt another foriegn national from boarding a US flight with disguised explosive. And instead of doing that, he ran the usual screen: he went away, and he had a flunky float a trial balloon.

]]>By: olesparkiehttp://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/30/cheney-obama-pretends-were-not-at-war/comment-page-2/#comment-3093969
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:15:41 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=76868#comment-3093969Maybe we can interrogate the panty bomber to find out who these other two or three hundred jihadists are who want to blow up our planes, trains, and automobiles. Oh, wait, he’s not being held at Gitmo……and he’s got a lawyer who’s not letting him talk. Gee, I sure hope team Obama fingerprints him and takes a DNA sample to see if he’s conducted any burglaries or rapes. Maybe the panty bomber doesn’t have a valid I-9 form, too! Oh Dear!
]]>By: Cheney’s Latest Jab at Obama | Xenia Institutehttp://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/30/cheney-obama-pretends-were-not-at-war/comment-page-2/#comment-3093948
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:03:43 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=76868#comment-3093948[…] Hot Air | In his statement, Cheney goes beyond Obama’s performance this week to make an entirely different point than just incompetence. In fact, Cheney believes that Obama’s response fits a pattern that has a rational purpose, which is to move America away from a war mentality entirely and bring the effort against al-Qaeda into the law-enforcement realm instead. […]
]]>By: leftnomorehttp://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/30/cheney-obama-pretends-were-not-at-war/comment-page-2/#comment-3093877
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:03:01 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=76868#comment-3093877RUN.
DICK.
RUN.
]]>By: SilentWatcherhttp://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/30/cheney-obama-pretends-were-not-at-war/comment-page-2/#comment-3093820
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:59:57 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=76868#comment-3093820That GWB waited 6 days to address the ShoeBomber is immaterial. Every American knew that GWB was deadly serious about the WOT. Whether or not he spoke directly to the SB, Americans knew that GWB was not just killing terrorists abroad, he was actively pursuing measures that would prevent terrorists slaughtering Americans at home. Americans have no such sense of security from Obama. Yeah, Al Qaeda thugs are being bombed abroad; however, simultaneously, Obama is giving away America’s security secrets to the terrorists via the NYT and other MSM outlets. Moreover, Obama is vilifying America on the global stage. Thus, the difference between the two is more than action abroad; it is the essential difference of GWB’s and Obama’s stance vis-a-vis the United States of America. We knew where GWB was even though some didn’t agree with him; we also know where Obama is, and nobody agrees with or trusts him.
]]>By: David2.0http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/30/cheney-obama-pretends-were-not-at-war/comment-page-2/#comment-3093765
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:46:11 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=76868#comment-3093765Every time Cheney speaks, the West Wing goes into full panic mode.

That’s RESPECT.

It’s the kinda respect that “insiders” show to a man whose accomplishments and judgement will be forever hidden by those weaker than him.

We are ‘occupiers’ therefore we are the guilty, and therefore ’cause’ the result.

]]>By: DSchoenhttp://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/30/cheney-obama-pretends-were-not-at-war/comment-page-2/#comment-3093592
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:33:43 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=76868#comment-3093592Bush, Rumsfeld et all barely muster a response to the shoe bomber a week after the fact but y’all are pis*ing your pants over this.
Dave Rywall on December 30,

There was no doubt that Bush understood we were at war and was actively engaged in fighting this war.

I always liked most of the people on this site. But you guys are really starting to lose me with your reaction to this failed attack.
Tom_Shipley on December 30,

Ahh, Tommy, history shows and the history of AQ shows, FAILD AQ attacks are a precursor to future attacks.

Remember the USS Cole? 10 months before that attack the USS The Sullivans was the target of an attempted bombing.

Dumb luck on our part that they overloaded their boat and sank as they approached the USS The Sullivans.

1993 AQ bombed the WTC.
The intent was to blowout the foundation of the building causing it to collapse, killing EVERYONE inside.

Dumb luck on our part that they placed the bomb in the wrong location.

9/11 2001 Dumb luck didn’t work.

This guy had enough explosives to take out the plane he was on.

Dumb luck on our part he messed up the detonator.

Do you really think Dumb luck is a good plan for fighting terrorists?

]]>By: onlineanalysthttp://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/30/cheney-obama-pretends-were-not-at-war/comment-page-2/#comment-3093447
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:32:13 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=76868#comment-3093447Does anyone else have the sense that we conservative commenters and the blogs that host us are more on top of the events, the facts/emerging background info, and the “dots” connecting the Christmas jihadist (as well as the Ft. Hood jihadist) than the WH and its lackeys?

There are too many Muslims in our government agencies (some in high places of influence) shaping the message and policies of the ObaMoa administration. The attitude conveys appeasement and dhimmitude.

]]>By: onlineanalysthttp://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/30/cheney-obama-pretends-were-not-at-war/comment-page-2/#comment-3093416
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:25:54 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=76868#comment-3093416I love Cheney. He sees the big picture and lays out the supportive details with a no-nonsense delivery. Essentially, he is telling ObaMao to man up and put away his utopian SimCity priorities.

Just an aside: Are there no file photos of Cheney, where he doesn’t look as if he is ready to snarl and bite off heads? This is the kind of not-so-subtle editorializing that the media like to use in order to control the narrative. It irks me to no end.